Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Prasenjit Mitra, associate professor of information sciences and technology in Penn State's College of Information Sciences and Technology, along with Cornelia Caragea, post-doctoral researcher, recently presented their research in the area of artificial intelligence at two conferences in Spain.
Mitra and Caragea presented "Classifying Scientific Publications Using Abstract Features" at the ninth Symposium on Abstraction, Reformulation and Approximation, which was held in Catalonia; and "Context Sensitive Topic Models for Author Influence in Document Networks" at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence that was held in Barcelona.
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Thursday, July 28, 2011
Since 2001, the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries has served as the major international forum focused on digital libraries and associated technical, practical and social issues. At this year's conference, which was held June 13-17 in Ottawa, Canada, Penn State researchers made a strong showing. The theme for JCDL 2011 was "Digital Libraries: Bringing Together Scholars, Scholarship and Research Data," in recognition of the changes the digital age is now bringing to scholarship.
Two professors in Penn State's College of Information Sciences and Technology, Dr. C. Lee Giles and Dr. Prasenjit Mitra, presented papers at the conference. In keeping with the theme of the conference, Giles, along with his collaborators, introduced a public website that is designed to connect researchers who share similar interests. (more)
Tuesday, December 08, 2009
Although politicians are often criticized for making empty promises, when it comes to their voting records, their words may carry more weight than previously thought, according to findings by two Penn State information technology scientists. The researchers used a computer model to compare voting records from the 110th Congress -- Jan. 3, 2007 to Jan. 3, 2009 -- to each senator's floor statements on the issues to determine whether the two matched up. (more)
